HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE WILL BE MURDERED BY BLACKS TODAY?..........THE LOOTING ACROSS AMERICA is as black as the staggering murder and crime rates of BLACKS ACROSS AMERICA. Black Lives Matter? NO LIFE MATTERS TO BLACKS!

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

SUCKING IN THE BACK-END BRIBES - HERE'S HOW JOE BIDEN DOES IT

Socialism haunts the American ruling

class In the two months since Donald Trump vowed

in his State of the Union Address that “America will

never be a socialist country,” the right-wing

demagogue president and the Republican Party

have embraced anti-socialism as the defining theme

of their campaign in the 2020 elections.

Joe Biden Received up to $200,000 for Speeches After Leaving White House

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JOSHUA CAPLAN25 Jun 2019166

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Former Vice President Joe Biden has raked in millions of dollars since leaving office in part due to his outsized speaking fees, a report out Tuesday says.

According to the Washington Post, Biden’s wealth is largely derived from two sources: he and his wife Jill’s $8-million book deals and paid speeches, which earned the 2020 frontrunner up to $200,00 each. The Post states Biden appeared at a book event or delivered a paid speech at least 65 occasions. As part of their arrangements, sponsors also provided the former vice president with VIP hotel suits, luxury vehicles equipped with a chauffeur, and chartered flights.

The newly-released report squares Biden at odds with the middle-class image he has cultivated over his life in public service. Despite pocketing so much money in recent years, Biden still references on the campaign trail that he was once among the poorest U.S. Senators.

In a statement to the Post, Biden’s campaign said the former vice president delivered less than 50 paid speeches but would not comment on any financial arrangements. The campaign also conceded that the rent for Biden’s McLean, Virginia residence is “substantial” but, again, did not discuss actual figures. According to real estate website Zillow, the property’s estimated monthly rent is approximately $20,000. In 2017, Biden snapped up a six-bedroom vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for $2.7 million.

Before his first
day in office Barack Obama had sucked in more bribes from banksters than any
president in history.

During the
economic meltdown caused by Obama’s crony banksters, and Obama’s first two
years in office, banks made more money than eight years under pro-bankster
administration of George Bush.

Both of Obama’s
Attorney Generals, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, were chosen by the banks because
they were from law firms that had long protected big banks from their victims.

“This was not because of
difficulties in securing indictments or convictions. On the contrary, Attorney
General Eric Holder told a Senate committee in March of 2013 that the Obama
administration chose not to prosecute the big banks or their CEOs because to do
so might “have a negative impact on the national economy.”

Joe Biden, the
walking moron, was selected by Obama also because of his ties and servitude to
big banks!

OBOMB'S CRONY
BANKSTERS DESTROYED MORE

THAN A TRILLION DOLLARS IN AMERICAN
HOME

VALUES AND NOW THEY'RE COMING BACK FOR
MORE WITH THE BANKSTES' RENT BOY BIDEN!

Decades of decaying capitalism
have led to this accelerating divide.

While the rich accumulate wealth
with no restriction, workers’ wages

and benefits have been under
increasing attack. In 1979, 90 percent of

the population took in 70 percent
of the nation’s income. But, by 2017,

that fell to only 61 percent.

Obama paid $600,000 for a single speech

In the two years since
leaving the White House, former President Barack Obama has spent his time
raising and solidifying his position in the uppermost echelons of the top one
percent of Americans. Obama has raked in exorbitant amounts of money for public
speaking events and made deals worth millions with multiple companies.

Despite his quip, made
during the depths of the Great Recession, that “at a certain point you’ve made
enough money,” there seems to be no such limit for the Obamas. His family has
amassed so much wealth that even Obama himself said he was surprised in a
speech in South Africa last year.

Since he left office,
the former president has given an estimated 50 speeches a year to corporate
audiences for hundreds of thousands of dollars per event. In 2017, the same
year he left office, Obama was officially recognized as one of the top ten
highest paid public speakers in the US.

Photo of former president Barack Obama.
(Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Just last month, Obama
was reported to have been paid nearly $600,000 to speak at the EXMA conference
in Bogotá, Colombia. According to the Bogotá Post, EXMA is Colombia’s largest marketing
and business event of the year and one of the largest in Latin America. Simply
titled, “A conversation with President Barack Obama,” his talk purportedly
addressed “influential growth strategies” in marketing and other aspects of the
marketing economy.

Colombia is infamous
for the corruption prevalent in its public sector and military,

which costs the country
$17 billion a year, equivalent to 5.3 percent of its GDP.

Colombia exports half
of the world’s cocaine and its drug cartels have been known

to have a hand in
the government. Corruption and drug money are so rampant that

Colombia’s Inspector
General likened it to “the new cartel.”

While Obama warns of
the danger of “exploding inequality” in his speeches, the massive sum granted
to him for one night in Bogotá is more than 10 times what the typical household
in the US makes in a year, and 72 times the average worker’s annual income in
Colombia.

Notably, Obama’s purse
was nearly triple the amount Hillary Clinton was paid for her notorious
speeches to Goldman Sachs that revealed her and the Democratic Party as Wall
Street stooges. Former President Bill Clinton was paid just $200,000 per speech
when he toured Latin America in 2005.

A key factor in Obama’s
newfound and growing wealth are those who profited from his presidency. A
number of his public speeches have been given to big Wall Street firms and
investors. Obama has given at least nine speeches to Cantor Fitzgerald, a large
investment and commercial real estate firm, and other high-end corporations.
According to records, each speech has been at least $400,000 a clip.

During his presidency,
Obama bragged that his administration was “the only thing

between [Wall Street]
and the pitchforks.”

In fact, Obama handed
the robber barons and outright criminals responsible for the 2008–09 financial
crisis a multi-trillion-dollar bailout. His administration oversaw the largest
redistribution of wealth in history from the bottom to the top one percent,
spearheading the attack on the living standards of teachers and autoworkers.

Under Obama’s watch the
stock markets soared as the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased by 149
percent. Meanwhile, the “war on terror” in the Middle East was expanded with
Obama becoming the first president to spend every day of his two terms at war,
much to the delight of the military-industrial complex.

As the wars raged on
and the financial oligarchs fattened themselves off the ever-increasing
mountain of wealth being concentrated at the top of society, real wages
stagnated and an unprecedented opioid overdose crisis spun out of control.
Rising numbers of “deaths of despair” during Obama’s tenure, particularly among
the working class, resulted in a decline in life expectancy unprecedented in
the modern era.

In addition to monetary
rewards for his service to the financial elite and military-intelligence
apparatus, Obama has been lavishly feted by socialites and billionaires such as
Richard Branson. Obama was Branson’s special guest in 2017 on a private island
where the pair were seen kite surfing and enjoying the amenities of Branson’s
exclusive resort.

Michelle Obama has also
benefited after the family’s departure from the White House. The couple signed
a $65 million book deal with publishing company Penguin Random House for their
political memoirs. Michelle’s memoir “Becoming” was the best-selling book of
2018 with over 10 million copies sold. The pair also signed multi-year deals
with Netflix and Spotify to produce content aimed at “fostering dialogue” and
promoting diversity in entertainment.

Obama’s lucrative
post-White House career hobnobbing with the corporate, entertainment and
financial elite epitomizes the revolving door relationship between the US
government and the private sector. Obama’s rewards are simply retroactive
bribery for services rendered to the capitalist elite, who have welcomed him
with open arms.

“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook;
yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet
they made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They
understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made
him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”

CEO pay is higher than ever, as is the chasm
separating the rich and super-rich from everyone else. The incomes of the top 1
percent grew more than 11 percent between 2009 and 2011—the first two years of
the Obama “recovery”—while the incomes of the bottom 99 percent actually
shrank.

Meanwhile,
Obama is pressing forward with his proposal, outlined in his budget for the
next fiscal year, to slash $400 billion from Medicare and $130 billion from
Social Security… AS WELL AS WIDER OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, NO LEGAL NEED
APPLY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED

OBAMA AND BIDEN: SERVANT OF
THE 1%

Richest one percent controls
nearly half of global wealth

The richest one percent of the world’s population now controls
48.2 percent of global wealth, up from 46 percent last year.

“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican
alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world
hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.”
----Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER

Biden defended the wealthy in his speech to the donors but
begged them to be aware of wealth inequality.

THE CRONY CLASS:

Income inequality grows FOUR TIMES FASTER under
Obama-Biden and their bankster regime than Bush.

“By the time of Bill Clinton’s election
in 1992, the Democratic Party had completely repudiated its association with
the reforms of the New Deal and Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare
programs to provide an ample supply of cheap labor for the rich (WHICH NOW
MEANS OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of black
capitalists, and passed the 1994 Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three
strikes” provision that has helped create the largest prison population in the
world.”

“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican
alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world
hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.”
----Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER

Biden defended the wealthy in his speech
to the donors but begged them to be aware of wealth inequality.

The
declining living standards of the working class are feeding directly into the
retail apocalypse and mass layoffs of retail workers will only exacerbate the
issue. Workers’ wages have seen little to no growth in the last four decades,
and any economic growth experienced since 2008 has gone to the wealthiest of
the wealthy.

Why do all
global billionaires want wider open borders, amnesty and no E-VERIFY?

Biden defended the wealthy in his speech
to the donors but begged them to be aware of wealth inequality.

AMERICA:
THE ECONOMY IS RIGGED BY CONGRESS SO THE RICH BECOME SUPER RICH.

The
American middle class gets the tax bills for Wall Street’s crimes and
bottomeless bailouts!

Wealth
concentration increases in US.

The latest
research on wealth inequality by University of California economics professor
Gabriel Zucman underscores one of the key social and economic trends since the
global financial crisis of 2008. Those at the very top of society, who
benefited directly from the orgy of speculation that led to the crash, have
seen their wealth accumulate at an even faster rate, while the mass of the
population has suffered a major decline.

The past
40 years have seen the consolidation of a plutocratic elite, which has
subordinated every aspect of American society to a single goal: amassing ever
more colossal amounts of personal wealth. The top one percent have
captured all of the increase in national income over the past two
decades, and all of the increase in national wealth since the 2008 crash.

“Our entire crony capitalist system,
Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par
with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is
raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER

Biden defended the
wealthy in his speech to the donors but begged them to be aware of wealth
inequality.

Former Vice President Joe Biden attended a fundraiser with Wall Street
donors during President Donald Trump’s campaign kickoff rally in Florida on
Tuesday.

It was
the fourth New
York City fundraiser for Joe Biden in about 24 hours.

The
fundraiser was hosted by Eric Mindich, the CEO of Eton Park Capital Management
with about 100 donors including Stephen Scherr, the executive vice president
and chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs, H. Rodgin Cohen the senior
chairman at Sullivan & Cromwell as well as former Clinton and Obama
officials

Biden
defended the wealthy in his speech to the donors but begged them to be aware of
wealth inequality.

“You
know what I’ve found is rich people are just as patriotic as poor people,” he
said. “Not a joke. I mean, we may not want to demonize anybody who has made
money. The truth of the matter is, you all, you all know, you all know in your
gut what has to be done.”

Biden
warned that if Trump won re-election, he would “literally fundamentally change
the nature of who we are and how we function.”

Biden
boasted that Obama leaned on him to help bring members of Congress together
during their administration.

“Folks,
I believe one of the things I’m pretty good at is bringing people together,” he
said. “Every time we had trouble in the administration, who got sent to the
Hill to settle it? Me. No, not a joke. Because I demonstrate respect for them.”

Biden
defended the wealthy in his speech to the donors but begged them to be aware of
wealth inequality.

AMERICA: THE RICH GET MUCH RICHER AND THE MIDDLE CLASS GETS
BLUDGEONED…. Illegals get the jobs!

*

Why do the billionaire
class all want wider open borders and hordes more “cheap” labor illegals? It’s
all about keeping wages depressed for greater profits!

*

“Today’s society benefits those who shaped it, and it has been shaped
not by working men and women, but by the new aristocratic elite. Big
banks, big tech, big multi-national corporations, along with their allies in
the academy and the media—these are the aristocrats of our age. They live in
the United States, but they consider themselves citizens of the
world” Sen. Josh Hawley

"This
is how they will destroy America from within. The leftist
billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked
with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the
cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have nothing
but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of

our
communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and
human

traffickers. These
people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats
who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA
McCARTHY

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible
government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the
people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance
between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the
statesmanship of today.” THEODORE ROOSEVELT

*

"But what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at
the expense of the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it:
gain power, use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral,
immoral, and venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That
should be clear to every person on the planet by now." ----
Patricia McCarthy - AMERICANTHINKER.com

*

“The couple parlayed lives supposedly spent in “public service”
into admission into the upper stratosphere of American wealth, with incomes in
the top 0.1 percent bracket. The source of this vast wealth was a
political machine that might well be dubbed “Clinton, Inc.” This consists
essentially of a seedy money-laundering operation to ensure big business
support for the Clintons’ political ambitions as well as their personal
fortunes."

*

"The tax
overhaul would mean an unprecedented windfall for the super-rich, on
top of the fact that virtually all income gains during the
period of the supposed recovery from the financial crash of 2008 have
gone to the top 1 percent income bracket."

*

Graph from the Economic Policy Institute

Decades of decaying capitalism have led to this accelerating
divide. While the rich accumulate wealth with no restriction, workers’ wages
and benefits have been under increasing attack. In 1979, 90 percent of the
population took in 70 percent of the nation’s income. But, by 2017, that fell
to only 61 percent.

*

Millionaires
projected to own 46 percent of global private wealth by 2019

While the wealth of the rich is growing at a
breakneck pace, there is a stratification of growth within the super wealthy,
skewed towards the very top.

At the
end of 2014, millionaire households owned about 41 percent of global private
wealth, according to BCG. This means that collectively these 17 million
households owned roughly $67.24 trillion in liquid assets, or about $4 million
per household.

By Gabriel Black

*

The massive increase in the value of the stock market,
which only a small segment of the population participates in, means that
the top 10 percent of the population controls 73 percent of
all wealth in the United States. Just three men—Jeff Bezos, Warren
Buffet and Bill Gates—had more wealth than the bottom half of America
combined last year.

Biden
defended the wealthy in his speech to the donors but begged them to be aware of
wealth inequality.

America
Created Just 20,000 Jobs in February...and those all went to foreign
born

Exclusive–Mo
Brooks: ‘Masters of the Universe’ Want More Immigration to ‘Decrease Incomes of
Americans’

Consequently,
the pumping of ultra-cheap money into the financial system,
fueling speculation and parasitism, together with ever-widening
social inequality, is not a temporary measure but must be
made permanent.

The
declining living standards of the working class are feeding directly into
the retail apocalypse and mass layoffs of retail workers will
only exacerbate the issue.

Workers’
wages have seen little to no growth in the last four decades, and any
economic growth experienced since 2008 has gone to

Biden defended the wealthy in his speech to the donors but
begged them to be aware of wealth inequality.

“US
household net worth sees biggest fall since crisis”

*

“Trump
Touts Legal Immigration
System for ‘Our Corporations’ at Expense of

American Workers “– JOHN
BINDER

Trump’s
shift from a wage-boosting legal immigration system to one that benefits
corporations and their shareholders coincides with recent big business lobby
influence over his White House, at the behest of advisers Jared Kushner and
Brooke Rollins.

Despite a booming economy,
many U.S. households are still just holding on

"One of the premier institutions of
big business, JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the
eve of the 10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that
another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a
government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama
will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact
of central bank actions in driving inequality between
asset owners and labor."

“Our
entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become
a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This
is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen
McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com

“Behind
the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no
allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this
invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business
and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.” THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Jim Carrey: America
‘Doomed’ If We Don’t Regulate Capitalism"

The American phenomenon of record stock values fueling an ever greater
concentration of wealth at the very top of society, while the economy is
starved of productive investment, the social infrastructure crumbles, and
working class living standards are driven down by entrenched
unemployment, wage-cutting and government austerity policies, is part of
a broader global process."

The father of US Treasury Secretary

Steven Mnuchin just completed the most

expensive purchase of a living artist’s work in

US history, spending over $91 million on a

three-foot-tall metallic sculpture. Ken Griffin,

the founder of hedge fund Citadel,

recently dropped $238 million on a

penthouse in New York City, the most

expensive US home ever purchased. And

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man,

has invested $42 million in a 10,000-year

clock.

Decades
of decaying capitalism have led to this accelerating divide. While the rich
accumulate wealth with no restriction, workers’ wages and benefits have been
under increasing attack. In 1979, 90 percent of the population took in 70
percent of the nation’s income. But, by 2017, that fell to only 61 percent.

"This
is how they will destroy America from within. The leftist
billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked
with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the
cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have nothing
but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our
communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and
human traffickers. These people have no intention
of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have
contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY

In 2014
the Russell Sage Foundation found that between 2003 and 2013, the median
household net worth of those in the United States fell from $87,992 to
$56,335—a drop of 36 percent. While the rich also saw their wealth drop during
the recession, they are more than making that money back.

Between
2009 and 2012, 95 percent of all the income gains in the US went to the top 1
percent. This is the most distorted post-recession income gain on record.

Additionally, Koch spokespeople at the donors’ conference
said the network has its sights set on pushing amnesty for millions of illegal
aliens this year.

Biden defended the wealthy in his
speech to the donors but begged them to be aware of wealth inequality.

NO PRESIDENT SUCKED IN MORE BRIBES FROM BANKSTERS BEFORE AND
AFTER HIS PRESIDENCY THAT BARACK OBAMA.

Trump criticized Dimon in
2013 for supposedly contributing to the country’s economic
downturn. “I’m not Jamie Dimon, who pays $13 billion to settle a case
and then pays $11 billion to settle a case and who I think is the worst
banker in the United States,” he told reporters.

“The response of the administration was to rush to the defense
of the banks. Even before coming to power, Obama expressed his unconditional
support for the bailouts, which he subsequently expanded. He assembled an
administration dominated by the interests of finance capital, symbolized by
economic adviser Lawrence Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.”

Practically every cabinet appointee of Obama’s has close
personal connections to the ruling class, many having come directly from
corporate boardrooms. Under Obama’s watch not a single executive at a major
financial firm has been criminally tried, much less sent to jail, for their
role in the financial crisis.

“Attorney General Eric Holder's tenure was a
low point even within the disgraceful scandal-ridden Obama years.” DANIEL
GREENFIELD / FRONTPAGE MAG

"One of the premier institutions of
big business, JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the
eve of the 10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that
another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a
government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama
will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact
of central bank actions in driving inequality between
asset owners and labor."

This manufactured crisis has, in turn, been exploited by the
Obama administration and both big business parties to hand over trillions in
pension funds and other public assets to the financial kleptocracy that rules
America.

“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican
alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world
hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.”
---- Karen McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com

“This was not because of difficulties in securing indictments or
convictions. On the contrary, Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate
committee in March of 2013 that the Obama administration chose not to prosecute
the big banks or their CEOs because to do so might “have a negative impact on
the national economy.”

"One of the premier institutions of big business, JP
Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the 10th anniversary
of the 2008 crash, which warned that another “great liquidity crisis”
was possible, and that a government bailout on the scale of that
effected by Bush and Obama will produce social unrest, “in light of
the potential impact of central bank actions in driving
inequality between asset owners and labor."

(CNSNews.com) - The federal government spent $2,198,468,000,000
in the first six months of fiscal 2019 (October through March), which is the
most it has spent in the first six months of any fiscal year in the last
decade, according
to the Monthly Treasury Statements.

The last time the government spent more in the
October-through-March period was in fiscal 2009, when it spent
$2,326,360,180,000 in constant March 2019 dollars.

Fiscal 2009 was the fiscal year that began with President George
W. Bush signing a $700-billion law to bailout the banking industry in October
2008 and then saw President Barack Obama sign a $787-billion stimulus law in
February 2009.

JPMorgan
shares climb after the bank posts record earnings and revenue

·JPMorgan
reported first-quarter earnings results on Friday, kicking off another earnings
season for the largest US banks.

JPMorgan Chase reported record first-quarter results on both the
top and bottom lines Friday morning. Shares climbed 2.3% in early trading to
$108.68.

Here's how the results stacked up with Wall Street's
expectations as compiled by Bloomberg.

·Adjusted
net income: $9.18 billion versus $7.7 billion expected

·Earnings
per share: $2.65 versus $2.34 expected

·Revenue: $29.85
billion versus $28.4 billion expected

·Expenses: $16.4
billion versus $16.7 billion expected

"In the first quarter of 2019, we had record revenue and
net income, strong performance across each of our major businesses, and a more
constructive environment," CEO Jamie Dimon said in the earnings
release. "Even amid some global geopolitical uncertainty, the US
economy continues to grow, employment and wages are going up, inflation is
moderate, financial markets are healthy, and consumer and business confidence
remains strong."

A deeper look into the numbers showed the trading and
investment-banking businesses exceeded expectations, though trading declined
17% from the year earlier:

"The Federal Reserve is a key mechanism
for perpetuating this whole filthy system, in which "Wall Street
rules."

Wall Street rules

The Federal Reserve sent a clear message to Wall Street on
Friday: It will not allow the longest bull market in American history to end.
The message was received loud and clear, and the Dow rose by more than 700
points.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers remain furloughed or
forced to work without pay as the partial government shutdown enters its third
week, but the US central bank is making clear that all of the resources of the
state are at the disposal of the financial oligarchy.

Responding to Thursday’s market selloff following a dismal
report from Apple and signs of a manufacturing slowdown in both China and the
US, the Fed declared it was “listening” to the markets and would scrap its
plans to raise interest rates.

Speaking at a conference in Atlanta, where he was flanked by his
predecessors Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, both of whom had worked to reflate
the stock market bubble after the 2008 financial crash, Chairman Jerome Powell
signaled that the Fed would back off from its two projected rate increases for
2019.

“We’re listening sensitively to the messages markets are
sending,” he said, adding that the central bank would be “patient” in imposing
further rate increases. To underline the point, he declared, “If we ever came
to the conclusion that any aspect of our plans” was causing a problem, “we
wouldn’t hesitate to change it.”

This extraordinary pledge to Wall Street followed the 660 point
plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday, capping off the worst
two-day start for a new trading year since the collapse of the dot.com bubble.

William McChesney Martin, the Fed chairman from 1951 to 1970,
famously said that his job was “to take away the punch bowl just as the party
gets going.” Now the task of the Fed chairman is to ply the wealthy revelers
with tequila shots as soon as they start to sober up.

Powell’s remarks were particularly striking given that they
followed the release Friday of the most upbeat jobs report in over a year, with
figures, including the highest year-on-year wage growth since the 2008 crisis,
universally lauded as “stellar.”

While US financial markets have endured the worst December
since the Great Depression, amid mounting fears of a looming
recession and a new financial crisis, analysts have been quick to point
out that there are no “hard” signs of a recession in the United States.

Both the Dow and the S&P 500 indexes have fallen more than
15 percent from their recent highs, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ has entered
bear market territory, usually defined as a drop of 20 percent from recent
highs.

The markets, Powell admitted, are “well ahead of the data.” But
it is the markets, not the “data,” that Powell is listening to.

Since World War II, bear markets have occurred, on average,
every five-and-a-half years. But if the present trend continues, the Dow will
reach 10 years without a bear market in March, despite the recent losses.

Now the Fed has stepped in effectively to pledge that it
will allocate whatever resources are needed to ensure that
no substantial market correction takes place. But this
means only that when the correction does come, as it inevitably

must, it will be all the more severe and the Fed will
have all the less power to stop it.

From the standpoint of the history of the institution, the Fed’s
current more or less explicit role as backstop for the stock market is a
relatively new development. Founded in 1913, the Federal Reserve legally has
had the “dual mandate” of ensuring both maximum employment and price stability
since the late 1970s. Fed officials have traditionally denied being influenced
in policy decisions by a desire to drive up the stock market.

Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, appointed by Democratic
President Jimmy Carter in 1979, deliberately engineered an economic recession
by driving the benchmark federal funds interest rate above 20 percent. His
highly conscious aim, in the name of combating inflation, was to quash a wages
movement of US workers by triggering plant closures and driving up
unemployment.

The actions of the Fed under Volcker set the stage for a vast
upward redistribution of wealth, facilitated on one hand by the trade unions’
suppression of the class struggle and on the other by a relentless and dizzying
rise on the stock market.

Volcker’s recession, together with the Reagan administration’s
crushing of the 1981 PATCO air traffic controllers’ strike, ushered in decades
of mass layoffs, deindustrialization and wage and benefit concessions, leading
labor’s share of total national income to fall year after year.

These were also decades of financial deregulation, leading to
the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s, the dot.com bubble of 1999-2000,
and, worst of all, the 2008 financial crisis.

In each of these crises, the Federal Reserve carried out what
became known as the “Greenspan put,” (later the “Bernanke put”)—an implicit
guarantee to backstop the financial markets, prompting investors to take ever
greater risks.

In 2008, this resulted in the most sweeping and systemic
financial crisis since the Great Depression, prompting Fed Chairman Bernanke,
New York Fed President Tim Geithner and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (the former
CEO of Goldman Sachs) to orchestrate the largest bank bailout in human history.

Since that time, the Federal Reserve has carried out its most
accommodative monetary policy ever, keeping interest rates at or near zero
percent for six years. It supplemented this boondoggle for the financial elite
with its multi-trillion-dollar “quantitative easing” money-printing program.

The effect can be seen in the ever more staggering wealth of the
financial oligarchy, which has consistently enjoyed investment returns of
between 10 and 20 percent every year since the financial crisis, even as the
incomes of workers have stagnated or fallen.

American capitalist society is hooked on the toxic growth of
social inequality created by the stock market bubble. This, in turn, fosters
the political framework not just for the decadent lifestyles of the financial
oligarchs, each of whom owns, on average, a half-dozen mansions around the
world, a private jet and a super-yacht, but also for the broader periphery of
the affluent upper-middle class, which provides the oligarchs with political
legitimacy and support. These elite social layers determine American political
life, from which the broad mass of working people is effectively excluded.

The Federal Reserve is a key mechanism for perpetuating
this whole filthy system, in which “Wall Street rules.” But its
services in behalf of the rich and the super-rich only compound the
fundamental and insoluble contradictions of capitalism, plunging the system
into ever deeper debt and ensuring that the next crisis will be
that much more violent and explosive.

In this intensifying crisis, the working class must assert its
independent interests with the same determination and ruthlessness as evinced
by the ruling class. It must answer the bourgeoisie’s social counterrevolution
with the program of socialist revolution.

the depression is already here for most of us below the
super-rich!

Trump and the GOP created a fake economic boom on
our collective credit card: The equivalent of maxing out your credit
cards and saying look how good I'm doing right now.

*

Trump criticized Dimon in
2013 for supposedly contributing to the country’s economic
downturn. “I’m not Jamie Dimon, who pays $13 billion to settle a case
and then pays $11 billion to settle a case and who I think is the worst
banker in the United States,” he told reporters.

*

"One of the premier institutions of big business, JP
Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the 10th anniversary
of the 2008 crash, which warned that another “great liquidity crisis”
was possible, and that a government bailout on the scale of that
effected by Bush and Obama will produce social unrest, “in light of
the potential impact of central bank actions in driving
inequality between asset owners and labor."

*

"Overall, the
reaction to the decision points to the underlying fragility of financial
markets, which have become a house of cards as a result of the massive
inflows of money from the Fed and other central banks, and are now
extremely susceptible to even a small tightening in financial
conditions."

*

"It is significant that what the Financial Times described
as a “tsunami of money”—estimated to reach $1 trillion for the year—has failed
to prevent what could be the worst year for stock markets since the global
financial crisis."

*

"A decade ago, as the financial crisis raged, America’s
banks were in ruins. Lehman Brothers, the storied 158-year-old investment
house, collapsed into bankruptcy in mid-September 2008. Six months
earlier, Bear Stearns, its competitor, had required a government-engineered
rescue to avert the same outcome. By October, two of the nation’s largest
commercial banks, Citigroup and Bank of America, needed their own
government-tailored bailouts to escape failure. Smaller but still-sizable
banks, such as Washington Mutual and IndyMac, died."

*

The GOP said the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act"
would reduce deficits and supercharge the economy (and stocks and
wages). The White House says things are working as planned, but one year
on--the numbers mostly suggest otherwise.

Obama's Wall Street cabinet

6 April 2009

A series of articles published over the weekend, based on
financial disclosure reports released by the Obama administration last Friday
concerning top White House officials, documents the extent to which the administration,
in both its personnel and policies, is a political instrument of Wall Street.

Policies that are extraordinarily favorable to the financial
elite that were put in place over the past month by the Obama administration
have fed a surge in share values on Wall Street. These include the scheme to
use hundreds of billions of dollars in public funds to pay hedge funds to buy
up the banks’ toxic assets at inflated prices, the Auto Task Force’s rejection
of the recovery plans of Chrysler and General Motors and its demand for even
more brutal layoffs, wage cuts and attacks on workers’ health benefits and
pensions, and the decision by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
to weaken “mark-to-market” accounting rules and permit banks to inflate the value
of their toxic assets.

At the same time, Obama has campaigned against restrictions on
bonuses paid to executives at insurance giant American International Group
(AIG) and other bailed-out firms, and repeatedly assured Wall Street that he
will slash social spending, including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

The new financial disclosures reveal that top Obama advisors
directly involved in setting these policies have received millions from Wall
Street firms, including those that have received huge taxpayer bailouts.

The case of Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic
Council and Obama’s top economic adviser, highlights the politically incestuous
character of relations between the Obama administration and the American
financial elite.

Last year, Summers pocketed $5 million as a managing director of
D.E. Shaw, one of the biggest hedge funds in the world, and another $2.7
million for speeches delivered to Wall Street firms that have received
government bailout money. This includes $45,000 from Citigroup and $67,500 each
from JPMorgan Chase and the now-liquidated Lehman Brothers.

For a speech to Goldman Sachs executives, Summers walked away
with $135,000. This is substantially more than double the earnings for an
entire year of high-seniority auto workers, who have been pilloried by the
Obama administration and the media for their supposedly exorbitant and
“unsustainable” wages.

Alluding diplomatically to the flagrant conflict of interest
revealed by these disclosures, the New York Times noted on Saturday: “Mr.
Summers, the director of the National Economic Council, wields important
influence over Mr. Obama’s policy decisions for the troubled financial
industry, including firms from which he recently received payments.”

Summers was a leading advocate of banking deregulation. As
treasury secretary in the second Clinton administration, he oversaw the lifting
of basic financial regulations dating from the 1930s. The Times article notes
that among his current responsibilities is deciding “whether—and how—to tighten
regulation of hedge funds.”

Summers is not an exception. He is rather typical of the
Wall Street insiders who comprise a cabinet and White House team that is filled
with multi-millionaires, presided over by a president who parlayed his own
political career into a multi-million-dollar fortune.

Michael Froman, deputy national security adviser for
international economic affairs, worked for Citigroup and received more than
$7.4 million from the bank from January of 2008 until he entered the Obama
administration this year. This included a $2.25 million year-end bonus handed
him this past January, within weeks of his joining the Obama administration.

Citigroup has thus far been the beneficiary of $45 billion in
cash and over $300 billion in government guarantees of its bad debts.

David Axelrod, the Obama campaign’s top strategist and now
senior adviser to the president, was paid $1.55 million last year from two
consulting firms he controls. He has agreed to buyouts that will garner him another
$3 million over the next five years. His disclosure claims personal assets of
between $7 and $10 million.

Obama’s deputy national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, was
paid $3.9 million by a Washington law firm whose major clients include
Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and the private equity firm Apollo Management.

Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, made
$227,155 last year from IndyMac Bancorp, the California bank that heavily
promoted subprime mortgages. It collapsed last summer and was placed under
federal receivership.

The presence of multi-millionaire Wall Street insiders extends
to second- and third-tier positions in the Obama administration as well. David
Stevens, who has been tapped by Obama to head the Federal Housing
Administration, is the president and chief operating officer of Long and Foster
Cos., a real estate brokerage firm. From 1999 to 2005, Stevens served as a top
executive for Freddie Mac, the federally-backed mortgage lending giant that was
bailed out and seized by federal regulators in September.

Neal Wolin, Obama’s selection for deputy counsel to the
president for economic policy, is a top executive at the insurance giant
Hartford Financial Services, where his salary was $4.5 million.

Obama’s Auto Task Force has as its top advisers two investment
bankers with a long resume in corporate downsizing and asset-stripping.

It is not new for leading figures from finance to be named to
high posts in a US administration. However, there has traditionally been an effort
to demonstrate a degree of independence from Wall Street in the selection of
cabinet officials and high-ranking presidential aides, often through the
appointment of figures from academia or the public sector. In previous decades,
moreover, representatives of the corporate elite were more likely to come from
industry than from finance.

In the Obama administration such considerations have largely
been abandoned.

This will not come as a surprise to those who critically
followed Obama’s election campaign. While he postured before the electorate as
a critic of the war in Iraq and a quasi-populist force for “change,” he was
from the first heavily dependent on the financial and political backing of
powerful financiers in Chicago. Banks, hedge funds and other financial
firms lavishly backed his presidential bid, giving him considerably more than
they gave to his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain.

Friday’s financial disclosures further expose the bankruptcy of
American democracy. Elections have no real effect on government policy, which
is determined by the interests of the financial aristocracy that dominates both
political parties. The working class can fight for its own interests—for jobs,
decent living standards, health care, education, housing and an end to war.

///

“Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are
employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG
($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).”

At a commencement address on Sunday at Ohio State University,
President Barack Obama counseled students not to be “cynical” about government
and politics.

There was an almost comically absurd element to Obama’s remarks,
delivered with his characteristic demagogy and attempted gestures at
profundity. In his first four years in office, along with the first
months of his second term, Obama proceeded to systematically repudiate every
campaign pledge and to deflate every illusion that, with the assistance of a
highly coordinated marketing campaign, led millions of people, including a
large number of young people, to vote for him in 2008.

The Obama administration handed trillions of dollars to the
banks; has overseen a massive attack on public education; is leading the
campaign to slash Social Security and Medicare, the core federal retirement and
health care programs; expanded the war in Afghanistan, led a war against Libya,
and is preparing a new war in Syria; and has asserted the right to kill anyone,
anywhere, including US citizens, without due process.

After this record of service to the corporate elite, he
declares: “When we turn away and get discouraged and cynical… we grant our
silent consent to someone who will gladly claim it. That’s how we end up with
lobbyists who set the agenda; and policies detached from what middle class
families face every day; the well-connected who publicly demand that Washington
stay out of their business—and then whisper in government’s ear for special
treatment that you don’t get.”

The references to the “whispers” of the wealthy and
well-connected is particularly rich, coming only a week after Obama nominated
Penny Pritzker for commerce secretary. The selection of Pritzker—a
longtime Obama confidant, billionaire heiress and owner of a private equity
company—only underscores the fact that the administration is a government of,
by and for the financial aristocracy. She will be the wealthiest
person ever to serve in a presidential cabinet.

Previous to his appointment of Pritzker, Obama appointed Mary Jo
White to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), one of the main
financial regulators. White made millions of dollars as an attorney
for banks responsible for the financial crisis, including Bank of America and
JPMorgan Chase, whose CEO, Jamie Dimon, called White the “perfect choice” to
head the SEC.

Practically every cabinet appointee of Obama’s has close personal
connections to the ruling class, many having come directly from corporate
boardrooms. Under Obama’s watch not a single executive at a major financial
firm has been criminally tried, much less sent to jail, for their role in the
financial crisis.

As a whole, Obama’s speech was characterized by a complete
separation from the actual conditions facing the graduates he spoke to, who
confront joblessness, falling wages, and a lifetime in debt. “You have every
reason to believe that your future is bright,” he told his audience. “You’re
graduating into an economy and a job market that is steadily healing.”

He added later, “The trajectory of this great nation should give
you hope.” Really? This is under conditions in which over 11 percent of college
graduates are unemployed a year after getting out of school, and another 16.1
percent simply drop out of the labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. Most of those who do find a job are paid barely enough to get by,
let alone pay off student loans. Wages for young adults are falling faster than
any other part of the population, and are down by 6 percent in the past four
years.

Most of the students that Obama addressed Sunday will be so
burdened with debt that they will delay or have to completely put off starting
a family or buying a home.

It is not surprising that Obama should neglect to dwell on this
disastrous situation, because his administration bears responsibility for it.
In the government-sponsored restructuring of the auto industry, the White House
insisted that the wages of new-hires be slashed in half, setting the stage for
vast reduction of wages throughout the economy.

Obama sought to paint opposition to the government’s violation
of democratic rights as right-wing hysterics. “Unfortunately, you’ve grown up
hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some
separate, sinister entity,” Obama said. “They’ll warn that tyranny is always
lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”

This comes from a president who has personally overseen the
illegal assassination of thousands of people, including at least three American
citizens, in weekly “Terror Tuesday” meetings. The assertions of executive
power have been systematically expanded, going beyond those claimed even by the
Bush administration. The specter of a police state—the response of the ruling
class to growing social opposition—is in fact lurking around the corner.

The moribund state of American politics, of which the Obama
administration is a principal expression, is, according to the president, the
fault of the American people. “Democracy doesn’t function without your active
participation,” he admonished. If politicians “don’t represent you the way you
want… you’ve got to let them know that’s not okay. And if they let you down,
there’s a built-in day in November where you can really let them know that’s
not okay.”

Such limp efforts to encourage illusions in the viability of the
“democratic process” in the United States will not go very far. The experience
of the past four years has not passed in vain. Millions of people, including
many of those in the audience at Ohio State, are drawing the quite justified,
if “cynical,” conclusion that the entire political and economic system is
rotten to the core.

Mounting evidence of international collusion in Libor rigging -
THE RAPE OF THE ECONOMY BY THE BANKSTERS

JPMorgan’s investment arm, which includes its energy group,
collects $14 billion annually; in comparison, six months’ worth of fines would
amount to a paltry $180 million.

THERE IS A REASON WHY THE BANKSTERS INVESTED HEAVILY IN OBAMA’S
CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION!

Records
show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial
industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase
($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).

Obama:
JPMorgan Is 'One of the Best-Managed Banks'

By
Mary Bruce | ABC OTUS News – 2 hrs 31 mins ago

Obama:
JPMorgan Is 'One of the …

Lou
Rocco / ABC News

Just
hours after a top JPMorgan Chase executive retired in the wake of a stunning $2
billion trading loss, President Obamatold the hosts of ABC's "The
View" that the bank's risky bets exemplified the need for Wall Street
reform.

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JPMorgan Chase investigated for manipulating California energy
market

By Oliver Richards

23 July 2012

The California
Independent Systems Operator (CalISO), the nonprofit organization that
coordinates the state’s electricity market, has alleged that JPMorgan
Chase& Co. manipulated the state’s energy market, resulting in at least $73
million in improper payments—costs passed along to the state’s energy
consumers.

This manufactured crisis has, in turn, been exploited by the
Obama administration and both big business parties to hand over trillions in
pension funds and other public assets to the financial kleptocracy that rules
America.

“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican
alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world
hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.”
---- Karen McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com

“This was not because of difficulties in securing indictments or
convictions. On the contrary, Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate
committee in March of 2013 that the Obama administration chose not to prosecute
the big banks or their CEOs because to do so might “have a negative impact on
the national economy.”

"One of the premier institutions of
big business, JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the
eve of the 10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that
another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a
government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama
will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact
of central bank actions in driving inequality between
asset owners and labor."

BILLIONAIRES, BANKSTERS AND THE RICH PARTNER WITH TRUMP TO
FIGHT … economic equality.

"JPMorgan
Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who was known as Barack Obama’s
favorite banker and who has been a major donor to

the
Democratic Party, centered his annual letter to shareholders on a
denunciation of socialism."

BANKSTER
SOCIALISM

Dimon’s bank received tens of billions of dollars in
government bailouts and many billions more from the
Obama administration’s ultra-low interest rate and “quantitative
easing” money-printing policies. He told his shareholders that
“socialism inevitably produces stagnation, corruption” and
“authoritarian government,” and would be “a disaster for our
country.”… UNLESS IT IS SOCIALISM FOR BANKSTERS AND WALL STREET!

"This paved the way for the elevation of
Trump, the personification of the criminality and backwardness of the ruling
oligarchy."

"The
very fact that the US government officially acknowledges a growth of
popular support for socialism, particularly among the nation’s youth,
testifies to vast changes taking place in the political consciousness of
the working class and the terror this is striking within the ruling
elite. America is, after all, a country where anti-communism was for
the greater part of a century a state-sponsored secular religion. No
ruling class has so ruthlessly sought to exclude socialist
politics from political discourse as the American ruling class."

THE BILLIONAIRES’S GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS

THE TRUE COST OF ALL THAT “CHEAP” LABOR IS PASSED ALONG TO THE MIDDLE CLASS.

"This doesn't include the costs of illegal immigration to society, which provides health care, housing, education, child care, and legal services to illegal aliens. Even though immigration advocates claim that illegal aliens do indeed pay taxes, the dollar amount pales in comparison to the cost of the many services they receive."

Meanwhile, despite the highest taxes in the nation, California is $1.3 trillion in debt – unemployment is at a staggering 11%. California's wacko giveaways to illegals include in-state tuition, amounting to $25 million of financial aid. Nearly a million illegals have California driver's licenses. L.A. County has 144% more registered voters than there are residents of legal voting age. Clearly, illegals are illegally voting.

THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT PARTY:

Getting LA RAZA illegals into the voting booths will assure endless hordes of “cheap” labor and destroy the GOP to make America a one-party country and massive, border to open border LA RAZA welfare state.

(THIS IS DATED. MEXICO NOW HAS INVADED ALL STATES )

The Mexican fascist separatist movement of M.E.Ch.A's goal is even more radical: an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this organization gives to the seven states of the U.S. Southwest – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah."

Dems Are Planning to Steal the 2020 Election

Democrats have an insurance policy for the 2020 Presidential election, and it has nothing to do with the eventual Democratic Party nominee. The original policy was initiated by Obama, Comey, Brennan, McCabe, Hillary, and their ilk, bragged about by Strzok to his paramour, and paid for by the Democrat/media cabal. The mephitic Mueller tried to cash it in, but the hero Marine got slapped down by Barr.

It’s a plan to “win” the election by any means necessary, even by cheating if necessary. Of its components, the “failsafe,” is most intriguing, if for no other reason than it is so devious, underhanded, clever, and inventive, that it’s surprising it comes from the same left which gave us the ridiculously ludicrous Steele dossier and Smollett hoax.

October Surprise.

Notice how quickly E. Jean Carroll disappeared from the headlines? Or, how the same media, which has a conniption fit when Trump asks for an extra scoop of ice cream, scarcely publicized her rape accusation, and then let the matter drop with nary a peep? Perhaps a sealed indictment of Donald Trump (New York has no statute of limitations for first-degree rape) is being processed as we speak, with the purpose of it being leaked just in time for the election.

Or a sealed indictment of Trump for campaign finance violations with respect to the Stormy Daniel payments will be leaked by the Office of the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York -- remember, Cohen and others are still “cooperating.” And it’s no secret they’ve been investigating Trump.

In any case, expect a leak of a “sealed indictment” for something; the something is immaterial. They’ve been shown the man; they’ll find the crime. It’s common knowledge a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, right? Well, there’s no bigger ham than Trump -- all they need do is make the sandwich.

Mueller made a big deal about not being able to prosecute a sitting president, so much so, one is reminded of a Stephanopoulos’ setup question. Get it out there so when it comes up again and they run with it, it seems fair because, heck, they gave him the benefit of the consideration and if not for the unfortunate leak, the indictment[s] would have remained sealed and secret until Trump was no longer president. In the fashion of Obama with every scandal, “no one is madder” than they about the leaks, and darn it, they’re putting their best team of men on it…

Electoral Shenanigans

Adam Mill had a great article warning that attempts by media, celebrities, and prominent Democrats in 2016 to convince members of the Electoral College not to award their votes to Trump was a mere prelude to the coercion by doxing, intimidation, Tweetstorm, and social media ostracism they will employ in 2020 to impel electors to award their votes to whom they are told.

“[O]nly two people were persuaded to change their votes. These two people, who were totally anonymous and unelected, nullified hundreds of thousands of lawfully cast ballots as they succumbed to a secret campaign of intimidation and persuasion in the weeks after the 2016 presidential election.”

Yet, this was done on the spur of the moment. In 2020, they will have had four years to plan their machinations.

In fact, why not do away with the Electoral College altogether? Fourteen states enacted the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, representing a total of 196 electoral votes. Supporters maintain that once the number of states enacting NPVIC surpasses the 270 electoral votes needed to win a presidential election, the compact will have the force of law and electors will be required to award their votes to the winner of the popular vote, which will almost certainly be the Democrat.

Of course, the gambit is blatantly unconstitutional (Brian S. Messenger’s articledoes a superb job of explaining why). Changing the constitution is an arduous process, for which Democrats don’t have public support; the NPVIC simply bypasses it.

Outright Cheating

Importing a new, more “woke” electorate is another tactic. Americans stole the presidency from Hillary Clinton, so the left through their “open borders” policy plans on replacing the electorate with poor people dependent on Democrat handouts who they can suborn to vote illegally for Democrat candidates.

The obstinate American electorate now extant can eat flan…

Democrats seek to facilitate illegal voting by suppressing Voter ID movements, while challenging laws to purge voter rolls of the dead, noncitizens, people who have moved, and those voters who are inactive. Licenses for illegals and auto-motor-voter registration will help.

Then there is “no excuse” early voting and absentee voting. Originally devised to let people vote by mail if they had some legitimate reason they couldn’t get to the polls, it has now become a way to vote early and often. It’s easier to manipulate because partisans can fill out the ballots for people who never intended or choose not to vote, aren’t eligible, or are no longer alive -- as well as eliminate particular votes, like those from military personnel overseas.

Yet, vote harvesting is the most pernicious of the voting schemes; it allows partisans to go to someone’s home with a ballot, fill it out for them, and cast it in their stead. Can you say, “voter intimidation?” What could go wrong?

Lowering the voting age to 16 and allowing felons and prisoners to vote are also aspirations.

Those on the left believe they are on the side of all that is right and just. Therefore, anything they do, no matter how illegal, unjust, or just wrong, in service of the goal of winning back their right to govern, is justified. And if they can’t win elections by winning elections, they will cheat, because only with absolute power can they save America from Americans.

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The Democrats' Alien Voting Strategy

In a book from the 1950s entitled And Not a Shot is Fired: How Parliament Can Play a Revolutionary Part in the Transition to Socialism, Jan Kozak, a Czech Communist, explains how Czechoslovakia was transformed from a free country into a communist dictatorship in 1948 without armed revolution taking place. They voted the communists in and, once they had a taste of power, they held on to it for 40 years. That would not be possible in the United States, right? After all, President Trump has said America will never be a socialist country. Let’s take a look at something happening now that may make you wonder.

The 1948 Czechoslovakia model uses the voting booth to obtain power. To do that they need voters. Here’s one way to get truckloads of new voters. Immigrants who become citizens vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Table 4 from this Center for Immigration Reform link shows voter changes as immigrant population increases in 25 U.S. cities. It gives a pretty good reason why Democrats want more immigrants. They result in Democratic election wins.

Step one of the plan is to recruit voters. Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders for you English speakers out there) is a nonprofit group based in Chicago. Glenn Beck gives a good summary of the group, its primary organizers, and some of its activities in this video if you’d like to know more about them.

PSF advertises in Honduras and Guatemala for people who would be interested in coming to the United States to live. That would be a hard sell, wouldn’t it? They then help organize and finance the “caravans” that march 1000 miles across Mexico and end up at our southern border. And you thought it was all a spontaneous.

Once the “caravan” gets to the border and some of the participants begin to get across and into the U.S. immigration system, the question becomes what to do with them? You would think someone who comes into the country illegally could be sent back but some judges are foot soldiers in the Left’s multi-pronged attack and block attempts to deport illegals.

The federal government is so big it’s hard to keep track of what kind of people populate it. The 1948 Czech plan utilizes pressure from above with high-level politicians and the media as well as from below with unions, activist groups, and sympathizers in the government. Some of today’s leftist sympathizers werepolitical appointees of Obama’s who have managed to get lifetime civil-service jobs and others are actual card-carrying Democratic Socialist of America members who work on behalf of Left wing objectives as revealed in recentProject Veritas undercover videos.

With these kind of people occupying various positions in government it stands to reason that a plan would be hatched to use these “new potential voters” to help swing Florida, the nation’s third-largest state firmly into the Democratic left column. If they can do this there is no way Republicans can win the presidency in the foreseeable future. Someone in the Border Patrol decided to start shipping 500 illegal aliens a month from the southwestern border to Florida. These aliens would subsequently be processed and released into the general population. The plan got out and news from the weekend seems to indicate President Trump, who was unaware of the plan, will not allow it to go forward.

For the sake of our discussion, let’s say the plan goes forward. These are new recruits who likely won’t be able to get citizenship by 2020 but will be the next generation of “new Americans.” The bureaucracy is working feverishly right now to get new citizens processed and voting with Florida citizenship classes seeing increased attendance in the run up to 2020. If they can’t win in 2020 they’ll have another four years to continue the importation of voters.

Keep in mind that citizenship is really no barrier to voting. Some of these people could actually vote in 2020. Judicial Watch estimates at least 900,000 aliens illegally voted in the midterm elections. How can that be? I suspect there are a number of ways but if you care to listen to the portion of the May 10. 2018 Mark Levin Show starting at the 31:26 minute mark you can hear a caller who claims to work for the U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Service. He says multiple applicants he has interviewed admit they have voted without being citizens.

It looks like we have problem. The first step in solving a problem is to identify what the problem is and why it exists. Once you know that you can begin to formulate solutions.

On Friday January 25, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that 95,000 individuals registered to vote in the Lone Star State have been identified as "Non-US Citizens," meaning they are illegally registered to vote. Further evidence brought forth by Texas Secretary of State David Whitely confirms that 58,000 of these individuals have broken the law and voted in "one or more" recent elections.

“Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice," AG Paxton said in a statement. "My Election Fraud Unit stands ready to investigate and prosecute crimes against the democratic process when needed."

The Public Interest Legal Foundation alerted district attorneys and the federal Justice Department to the pre-checked applications, and also included a signed affidavit from a man who said some of his relatives, who aren't citizens, received the mailing.

"This is how the Texas Democratic Party is inviting foreign influence in an election in a federal election cycle," said Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the PILF, a group that's made its mark policing states' voter registration practices.

The Texas secretary of state's office said it, too, had gotten complaints both from immigrants [sic] and from relatives of dead people who said they got mailings asking them to register.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to investigate.

"If true there will be serious consequences," he said.

This is an open invitation for voter fraud on a large scale, and the way the Democrats went about it defies belief:

The applications were pre-addressed to elections officials, which is likely what left many voters to believe they were receiving an official communication from the state.

But the return address was from the State Democratic Executive Committee, and listed an address in Austin that matches the state Democratic Party's headquarters.

The letter is emblazoned with "Urgent! Your voter registration deadline is October 9." It continues: "Your voter registration application is inside. Complete, sign and return it today!"

On the application, boxes affirming the applicant is both 18 and a U.S. citizen are already checked with an "X" in the Yes field.

The mailing also urges those who are unsure if they're registered to "Mail it in."

Dead people were also being asked to vote.

Sam Taylor, spokesman for Texas's secretary of state, said they heard from people whose relatives were receiving mail despite having passed away 10 years ago or longer. One woman said her child, who'd been dead 19 years, got a mailing asking to register.

"It looks like a case of really bad information they are using to send out these mailers," Mr. Taylor said.

Mr. Taylor is being very charitable. I doubt very much whether it's "bad information" being used by Democrats.

How many other state Democratic Parties send out similar requests to non-citizens and haven't been caught? Are we to believe that one party in one state came up with this idea all on its own? Perhaps, but not likely.

Many liberals believe that anyone in the United States – citizen or non-citizen – should be able to vote. If they want to make that argument and change the law to make it happen, they are more than welcome to try. Of course, if they run on that issue, they will get slaughtered at the polls. So instead of going to the American people and working to change the law, they try an underhanded dirty trick to achieve the same goal.

“New” and “underrepresented” voters could spell victory for leftist Democrats in November.

Last week California’s Department of Motor Vehicles sent 23,000 “erroneous” voter registrations to the office of Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who maintains the list of registered voters. The DMV blamed it technical errors and said none of the erroneous registrations involved undocumented immigrants. Padilla was “extremely disappointed and deeply frustrated” and the DMV assured him it wouldn’t happen again.

Legitimate voters have good reason to believe Padilla was not disappointed but delighted. The odds are strong that illegals make up most if not all of the newly registered voters. The registrations of illegals will be happening again, in greater numbers, as the November election approaches.

The day after the 23,000 registrations made news, it emerged that from late April to early August, the DMV registered 182,000 “new voters,” with the largest number, 112,000, choosing “no party.” Neither the DMV nor Padilla would explain the numbers but the trend is evident and all by design.

Under a 2015 voter registration law, the DMV automatically registered to vote those who obtain or renew a California driver’s license. As Padilla told the Los Angeles Times, “We’ve built the protocols and the firewalls to not register people that aren’t eligible. We’re going to keep those firewalls in place.” The Democrats’ Secretary of State did not explain how the firewalls worked and if any ineligibles had managed to vote.

After the 2016 election in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, Padilla refused to release any voter information to a federal probe that he claimed “has already inaccurately passed judgment that millions of Californians voted illegally.” California’s participation, Padilla said in a statement, “would only serve to legitimize the false and already debunked claims of massive voter fraud made by the president.”

Governor Jerry Brown, who three times ran for president, calls Californians “the citizens of the fifth largest economy in the world,” and the sanctuary state law protects even violent criminal illegals. The ruling Democrats protect illegals while promising them “free” health care and other benefits. In return, the illegals vote for Democrats.

“Palestinian-Mexican American” candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar, is the grandson of Black September terrorist Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar, who masterminded the murder and mutilation of 11 Israelis at the Munich Olympics in 1972. The Democrat, 29, is depending on “underrepresented voters,” to unseat Rep. Duncan Hunter in San Diego.

Legitimate voters have good reason to consider “underrepresented” as code for “ineligible” or “illegal.” For their part, legal citizens and immigrants might wonder how the Munichian candidate’s father managed to enter the United States and what the family was doing in Gaza for several years. Ammar isn’t telling and establishment journalists look the other way.

Senate boss Kevin de León, whose name on his birth certificate voter rolls is Kevin Alexander Leon, claims his father is a Chinese cook born in Guatemala. The author of the state’s sanctuary law spent time on both sides of the border and “identifies strongly with Mexican culture.” The story defies belief but as with Najjar the establishment media mounted no investigation.

Back in 1996 in Orange County, 442 illegals voted for Loretta Sanchez, the Democrat who narrowly defeated Republican Robert Dornan. He was the target of Hermandad Mexicana Nacional founder Bert Corona, a violent Stalinist who opposed Dornan’s strong anti-Communist stance.

Despite Democrat denials, voter fraud was going strong in California long before the DMV registered more than one million false-documented illegals. It’s a safe bet that most if not all those ineligibles will be showing up at the polls in November.

Shelby Lum, Richmond Times-Dispatch via The Associated Press

As the establishment media, GOP, and Democrats fret over the influence foreign countries have on U.S. elections, the leading threats to the American electorate remain nationwide voter fraud and mass immigration.

Though President Trump’s administration sought to thoroughly investigate voter fraud through the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity, the board was handed off to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to bypass obstruction from national Democrats who refused to turn over voter data.

Voter Fraud

The number of convictions against voter fraud continues to rise, with now nearly 940 criminal convictions on the books across the U.S., according to the latest data from the Heritage Foundation.

Likewise, the number of cases of voter fraud has risen. Heritage’s Voter Fraud Database now features 1,071 cases of voter fraud that spans across 47 states.

In the most recent study by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) on voter fraud, the think tank found 8,471 high likely cases of double voting. About 7,271 of those cases were inter-state double voting, while the remaining 1,200 cases were of intra-state double voting.

“The probability of correctly matching two records with the same name, birthdate, and social security number is close to 100 percent,” the GAI report noted.

Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach is fighting in his state to enforce voting laws that would mandate voters prove their U.S. citizenship. This effort has currently been halted by the left-wing ACLU organization and a circuit judge who recently claimed that it was unconstitutional for a state to demand voters provide their U.S. citizenship records. Years ago, proof of citizenship voting laws were upheld as fully constitutional.

“Compare [Russia meddling in the 2016 presidential campaigns] to the kind of foreign influence in the actual election numbers in foreign nationals voting,” Kobach told Breitbart News. “That’s real and much more consequential and it’s happening all over the country.”

Kobach said his expert witness in the suit with the ACLU over the proof of citizenship law revealed that as many as 33,000 foreign nationals are on the voter rolls in Kansas. For states like California, with the largest foreign-born population in the country, the number of foreign nationals on the voter rolls is likely in the hundreds of thousands or even the millions, Kobach says.

Mass Immigration

Similarly, mass legal and illegal immigration to the U.S. continues to be the largest driver of population increases and demographic shifts in the country. Every year, more than 1.5 million immigrants are admitted to the country. The U.S. has imported more than ten million immigrants in the last decade.

The vast majority of foreign nationals arrive through the process known as “chain migration,” where newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. Every two new immigrants to the country bring an additional seven foreign relatives with them.

As Breitbart News has extensively reported, the U.S. is on track to import about 15 million foreign-born voters by the year 2038. That is nearly quadruple the size of the annual number of U.S. births; about four million American babies are born every year.

Through chain migration alone, the U.S. will import about eight million foreign-born voters in the next two decades.

The country’s continued mass immigration policies are likely to hand over electoral dominance to Democrats in statewide and national elections, Breitbart News has noted.

The victory of socialist Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York’s 14th District is the latest case where a booming foreign-born voting population pushed the far-left activist over the edge to beat out establishment, high ranking Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley.

Ocasio-Cortez’s district is close to 50 percent foreign-born, a drastic shift of an area that was once populated primarily by native-born Americans. Ocasio-Cortez ran her congressional campaign on abolishing all immigration enforcement across the U.S.

In California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is facing a challenge from State Senator Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), and the California Democratic Party has endorsed León. The far-left challenger was the key proponent of California’s sanctuary state law that protects criminal illegal aliens from being deported.

University of Maryland, College Park researcher James Gimpel has found in recent years that more immigrants to the U.S. inevitably means more Democrat voters and thus, increasing electoral victories for the Democratic Party.

In 2014, Gimpel’s research concluded with three major findings:

·Immigrants, particularly Hispanics and Asians, have policy preferences when it comes to the size and scope of government that are more closely aligned with progressives than with conservatives. As a result, survey data show a two-to-one party identification with Democrats over Republicans.

·By increasing income inequality and adding to the low-income population (e.g. immigrants and their minor children account for one-fourth of those in poverty and one-third of the uninsured) immigration likely makes all voters more supportive of redistributive policies championed by Democrats to support disadvantaged populations.

·There is evidence that immigration may cause more Republican-oriented voters to move away from areas of high immigrant settlement leaving behind a more lopsided Democrat majority.

Years ago, only a handful of elected Democrats would mention how the demographic shift spurred by mass immigration was a benefit to Democrats electorally. Today, it is a widely used talking point of elected Democrats.

Take San Antonio, Texas Mayor Julian Castro, for example. Months ago, Castro admitted that immigration could potentially turn the state of Texas, Florida, and Arizona into Democrat strongholds, like California.

“The Democrats have now become very open about what they are doing and they state it very clearly,” Kobach said of the Democrats’ use of immigration for shifting the electorate.

“Now, multiple Democrats are saying their plan is to import new voters to change elections,” Kobach said.

In an analysis from Georgetown University, the University of California, and Banque de France, researchers discovered that immigration to the country continuously increases Democrats’ chances of winning elections:

On average across election types, immigration to the U.S. has a significant and negative impact on the Republican vote share, consistent with the typical view of political analysts in the U.S. [Emphasis added]

This average effect – which is driven by elections in the House – works through two main channels. The impact of immigration on Republican votes in the House is negative when the share of naturalized migrants in the voting population increases. Yet, it can be positive when the share of non-citizen migrants out of the population goes up and the size of migration makes it a salient policy issue in voters’ minds. [Emphasis added]

These results are consistent with naturalized migrants being less likely to vote for the Republican Party than native voters and with native voters’ political preferences moving towards the Republican Party because of high immigration of non-citizens. This second effect, however, is significant only for very high levels of immigrant presence. [Emphasis added]

In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high of 44 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.

Mexico has the largest group of legal and illegal foreign nationals in the U.S., with 1.1 million immigrants from the country arriving in the U.S. between 2010 and 2016. Mexican nationals make up roughly one in eight new arrivals to the U.S. On average, every one Mexican immigrant brings six foreign relatives with them to the country through chain migration.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

MEXICO WILL ELECT ALL FUTURE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS… Now go and watch the pols hispander!

The Golden State does favors for illegal immigrants -- who may return the favor at the voting booth.

“The California state budget on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk puts tens of millions of dollars into programs that could help undocumented immigrants fight federal efforts to deport them,” the Sacramento Bee reports, “including opening up $10 million to hire lawyers for unaccompanied minors trying to stay in the U.S.” For that crowd, the Democrats’ $200 billion budget has even more to give.

The budget “expands funding for immigration legal services offered through the Department of Social Services and public colleges,” and “includes $1.6 million to build a team of eight attorneys and investigators in the Labor Commissioner's office at the Department of Industrial Relations.” This team will enforce AB 430, “a state law that requires businesses to tell their employees when they’re contacted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” As the report notes, “employers face penalties of $2,000 to $10,000 if they fail to notify their workers of a pending immigration action.”

Last year’s budget “put $45 million into providing legal services to immigrants,” which the Department of Social Services deploys to “hire nonprofit organizations that will work on immigration cases.” The new funding “steers some of that money directly to colleges. It gives $10 million to community colleges for immigration legal services, $7 million to the California State University system and $4 million to the University of California.” Still, it’s not done.

“The upcoming budget also more than triples legal funding for undocumented minors,” The Bee reports. “Last year, the Department of Social Services received $3 million for those cases. In the next budget, the department gets $10 million to help young undocumented immigrants.”

David Chiu, the San Francisco Democrat who wrote AB 430, explains that “Donald Trump’s out-of-control deportation force is constant threat to our immigrant communities.” While Trump Derangement Syndrome is doubtless a factor, taxpayers might consider the upcoming mid-term elections.

As the Los Angeles Times reported in 2015, California’s 2015 voter registration law “is intended to streamline the process of signing up to vote and encourage more participation in elections.” It kicks in “when people go to the DMV to obtain or renew a driver's license.” Politicians deny that anybody will be automatically registered to vote.

“We’ve built the protocols and the firewalls to not register people that aren’t eligible,” secretary of state Alex Padilla told the Times. “At the latest, for the 2018 election cycle, I expect millions of new voters on the rolls in the state of California.” He got them.

California Senator Dianne Feinstein denies that widespread voter fraud occurs and Alex Padilla refuses to release data from voter rolls. So legal residents and taxpayers have good reason to wonder what he is hiding.

State legislators who take an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution now reward the violation of immigration law, and punish those who approve and follow federal law. The largesse for illegals also violates state law, the 1996 Proposition 209, which bars ethnic preferences in state education, employment and contracting.

California state universities privilege illegals with in-state tuition and as the budget shows, even pay their legal bills. Neither would apply to a legal African American or Asian American student from Michigan or Nevada. Senate boss Kevin de Leon also violated state law by giving preference to Mexican national Lizbeth Mateo, or whatever her real name is, for a post on the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee.

So California violates state law, defies federal law and budgets tens of millions of dollars for millions of illegals, the vast majority Mexican nationals. They get protection from the federal government, preference in education, and even payment of their legal bills. In return, they vote for California Democrats, in the style of Mexicans who vote for the dominant Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) party in return for favors.

In effect, California Democrats are a branch of the PRI and form a Mexican occupational government (MOGO) serving the interests of false-documented Mexican nationals.

Assembly speaker Anthony Rendon wants the state to “step up and work with Mexico” instead of the U.S. federal government. Normally those who represent the interests of foreign governments are required to register as agents of those governments.

The false-documented “unaccompanied minors” who get $10 million in the budget are those whose parents chose to break up their own families and put their own children into the hands of criminal smugglers. California’s MOGO regime is okay with that and even rewards it.

Mexicans cheat, distribute drugs, lie, forge documents, STEAL and kill as if it’s a normal way of life. For them, it is. Mexico’s civilization stands diametrically opposed to America’s culture. FROSTY WOOLDRIDGE

''California is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave."

(THIS IS DATED. MEXICO NOW HAS INVADED ALL STATES )

And M.E.Ch.A's goal is even more radical: an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this organizationgives to the seven states of the U.S. Southwest – Arizona,California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah."

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog organization, has sent a letter to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla on behalf of the Election Integrity Project, noting that there are 11 counties in the state with more registered voters, and alleging that the state may be out of compliance with Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

The letter reads, in part:

NVRA Section 8 requires states to conduct reasonable list maintenance so as to maintain an accurate record of eligible voters for use in conducting federal elections.1 As you may know, Congress enacted Section 8 of the NVRA to protect the integrity of the electoral process. Allowing the names of ineligible voters to remain on the voting rolls harms the integrity of the electoral process and undermines voter confidence in the legitimacy of elections.

…

As the top election official in California, it is your responsibility under federal law to coordinate California’s statewide effort to conduct a program that reasonably ensures the lists of eligible voters are accurate.

Judicial Watch lays out the specifics:

“[T]here were more total registered voters

than there were adults over the age of 18

living in each of the following eleven (11)

counties: Imperial (102%), Lassen (102%),

Los Angeles (112%), Monterey (104%), San

Diego (138%), San Francisco (114%), San

Mateo (111%), Santa Cruz (109%), Solano

(111%), Stanislaus (102%), and Yolo (110%).”

The letter notes that the percentage in L.A.

Country may be as high as 144%.

The letter contains a threat to sue the Secretary of State if Padilla does not remove from the rolls “persons who have become ineligible to vote by reason of death, change in residence, or a disqualifying criminal conviction, and to remove noncitizens who have registered to vote unlawfully.”

It gives Padilla 14 days to respond, and 90 days to correct alleged violations of the law.

Padilla has been one of the main voices in opposition to President Donald Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, refusing to share voter data with it on the argument that doing so would “legitimize false claims of massive election cheating last fall.”

President Trump has claimed that he would have won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election if not for illegal voting, and his administration has singled outCalifornia as a possible contributor to that margin.

The Election Integrity Project is a California-based volunteer organization that monitors voting irregularities.

The homeless, downtrodden, and poor who show up at drug detox centers all must show photo identification to get treatment. It's done to prevent them from going to more than one center for whatever maintenance fix they may be receiving at the first center. It is obvious that the government knows everyone has the capability to get a photo ID, so why do so many Democrats block that requirement when it comes to voting? They use the false arguments of voter intimidation while dismissing the real issue that maintaining a fair election is extremely important to maintaining our freedoms.

These are the same Democrats (and their media allies) who are complaining that Russia supposedly interfered in our election process. Yet they do everything they can to block commonsense photo ID requirements that the majority of the public supports to ensure fair elections. They call people racists who support these laws. The fact that they fight these photo ID requirements shows they really don't care about the integrity of the voting process.

The ID requirements at drug treatment facilities are intended to prevent people from enrolling in multiple programs and selling opioid medication such as methadone on the black market, said a spokesman from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, adding that programs would be liable for misuse of the medications.

Some detox centers will admit a person without ID first and make time later to sort out the person's identity, but doing so comes at risk of running afoul of federal and state regulations on dispensing medications, experts said.

The government requires the poor and elderly to have a photo ID to get food stamps, to open a bank account, to get welfare, to get Medicaid, and to get Social Security among many other things. Yet..

Democrats will go to court to stop a state requiring people to get a photo ID to vote, using the argument that it is racist. The fact that they require photo IDs for so many other things the poor and minorities have to do shows what a crock that argument is.

The only reason to block the photo ID laws for voting is to open up voting to fraud.

"We find that some noncitizens participate in U.S. elections, and that this participation has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes, and congressional elections," wrote Jesse T. Richman [and] Gulshan A. Chattha, both of Old Dominion University, and David C. Earnest of George Mason University.

More specifically, they write, "Noncitizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress."

Specifically, the authors say that illegals may have cast as many as 2.8 million votes in 2008 and 2010. That's a lot of votes. And when you consider [that] the population of illegal inhabitants has only grown since then, it's not unreasonable to suppose that their vote has, too.

So why is Russia getting all the attention? Russia, at worst, operated a small-scale propaganda campaign on places like Twitter and Facebook before the election. The amount of propaganda it disseminated was far, far less than 1% of the liberal propaganda put out daily by The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and many others who said Trump is a racist, Trump hates women, Trump hates poor people, etc. So Russian "interference" was basically negligible.

Russia is using fake accounts on social media – many of them bots – to spread disinformation, the officials said. European elections are being targeted, too, and the attacks were not likely to end this year, they warned.

"We expect Russia to continue using propaganda, social media, false-flag personas, sympathetic spokespeople[,] and other means of influence to try to exacerbate social and political fissures in the United States," Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, told the Senate Intelligence Committee at its annual hearing on worldwide threats.

Oh, no – bots are spreading disinformation! Let me know when these bots produce 1% of the disinformation produced by The New York Times on a daily basis.

Trump initially tried to investigate real interference in our elections. He set up a commission to investigate voter fraud chaired by Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach. But when the liberal media cried that the commission was all about voter suppression, Trump folded like a cheap umbrella. He shut down the commission before it could complete its research into what is probably massive voter fraud on the part of Mexican and other foreign nationals.

And so Republicans have accepted Democratic talking points. They talk only about Russian "interference" and are so cowed that they won't talk about illegal aliens voting. That's why we hear only about Russia, Russia, Russia, because like so many political topics – amnesty for illegal aliens, attempting to redefine marriage, boys in girls' bathrooms – Republicans are afraid to speak out.

‘California has the highest rate of inactive registrations of any state in the country. Los Angeles County has the highest number of inactive registrations of any single county in the country’

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a federal lawsuit against Los Angeles County and the State of California over their failure to clean their voter rolls and to produce election-related records as required by the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) (Judicial Watch, Inc.et al. v. Dean C. Logan, et al. (No. 2:17-cv-08948)). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California’s Western Division on behalf of Judicial Watch, Election Integrity Project California, Inc., and Wolfgang Kupka, Rhue Guyant, Jerry Griffin, and Delores M. Mars, who are lawfully registered voters in Los Angeles County.

Judicial Watch argues that the State of California and a number of its counties, including the county of Los Angeles, have registration rates exceeding 100%:

Los Angeles County has more voter registrations on its voter rolls than it has citizens who are old enough to register. Specifically, according to data provided to and published by the EAC, Los Angeles County has a registration rate of 112% of its adult citizen population.

The entire State of California has a registration rate of about 101% of its age-eligible citizenry.

Judicial Watch points out that this is due in part to the high numbers of inactive registrations that are still carried on California’s voter rolls:

About 21% of all of California’s voter registrations, or more than one in five, are designated as inactive.

California has the highest rate of inactive registrations of any state in the country…. Los Angeles County has the highest number of inactive registrations of any single county in the country.

Although these inactive registrations should be removed after a statutory waiting period consisting of two general federal elections, California officials are simply refusing to do so.

Judicial Watch explains that, even though a registration is officially designated as “inactive,” it may still be voted on election day and is still on the official voter registration list. The inactive registrations of voters who have moved to a different state “are particularly vulnerable to fraudulent abuse by a third party” because the voter who has moved “is unlikely to monitor the use of or communications concerning an old registration.” Inactive registrations “are also inherently vulnerable to abuse by voters who plan to fraudulently double-vote in two different jurisdictions on the same election day.”

Judicial Watch sent a written request for public records on November 16, 2017, and another on November 29, 2017, seeking information about “the number of inactive registrations on the voter rolls in Los Angeles County,” but was told each time that there were no responsive records.

Last summer, Judicial Watch sent a broader request for voter roll records that Los Angeles County and the State of California are required by the NVRA to keep and to make publicly available. Nothing was produced in response to this request. Judicial Watch points out that it is impossible to believe that there were no responsive records:

Los Angeles County, with over five million active voters and massive list maintenance responsibilities, and the Secretary of State of California [must] have exchanged emails responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] request for “all email or other communications between the Secretary’s Office and all California County voter registration officials concerning . . . [i]nstructions to the counties concerning their general list maintenance practices and obligations” and “[n]otices to the counties concerning any failure to comply with their voter list maintenance obligations.” Such emails should have been produced.

Section 8(a)(4) of the NVRA requires states to implement a program to remove ineligible registrants; and to turn over relevant records and information. Judicial Watch argues:

Los Angeles County is failing to properly conduct the list maintenance required by the NVRA by failing to properly train employees, failing to require and enter registrants’ birthdates, and failing to timely process reports that registrants have died, have committed disqualifying felonies, are mentally incompetent, or have registered twice.

Judicial Watch asks that the court enjoin Los Angeles County and the state of California from further violating the NRVA, and compel them to “develop and implement a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove from Los Angeles County’s rolls the registrations of ineligible registrants.” Judicial Watch asks to inspect and copy the requested voter roll records.

Judicial Watch sent a notice-of-violation letter in August 2017 to threatening to sue California and certain of its counties over their violations of the NVRA. California was one of 12 states to receive such letters from Judicial Watch.

“California may have the dirtiest election rolls in the country,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Federal law requires states to take reasonable steps to clean up their voting rolls. Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. This lawsuit aims to ensure that citizens of California can have more confidence that their elections are fair and honest.”

Judicial Watch Senior Attorney and Director of its Election Integrity Project Robert Popper recently provided testimony to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity concerning the NVRA. Popper was formerly Deputy Chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.

Judicial Watch sent notice-of-violation letters threatening to sue 11 other states having counties in which the number of registered voters exceeds the number of voting-age citizens, as calculated by the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2011-2015 American Community Survey: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee. Judicial Watch informed the states that should they fail to take action to correct violations of Section 8 of the NVRA, it would file suit.

Judicial Watch previously filed successful lawsuits under the NVRA against Ohio and Indiana that resulted in those states taking several actions to clean up their voting rolls. Judicial Watch is currently suing Kentucky over its failure to remove ineligible voters as required by the NVRA, and is suing the State of Maryland and Montgomery County over their failure to release voting-related records.

In 2013, California lawmakers passed legislation that allowed illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses if they can prove to the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) their identity and state residency. The plan was one of the largest victories to date by the open borders lobby.… JOHN BINDER – BREITBART.com

The biggest losers in Mexico's election? The Democrats

Every election has winners and losers, and Mexico's is no exception. While the press is making much of Mexico's centrist PRI and center-right PAN parties being the big losers in last night's election of socialist Andrés Manuel López-Obrador in Mexico, the real loser is actually up north, in the U.S. Democratic Party.

Sounds strange until you look at the details.

After all the ideological compatibility between AMLO's new lefty MORENA party and the increasingly socialist U.S. Democrats seems to be identical.

Both favor heavy social spending, forced unionization of workers, political patronage, Chicago-style political muscle, and fealty to the ideals of the Socialist International. It's what most socialists do until they run out of Other People's Money.

Democrats have staked their future on uneducated, needy illegals forming the base of their party's fortunes. In Mexico, AMLO has done the same thing. The problem comes because the Mexicans in question are the same people.

AMLO's social spending policies are likely to draw Mexicans illegally here in the U.S. back to Mexico. If you have a choice of taking welfare benefits here or welfare benefits there, it's likely you'll go for them in your home country, where the language is the same, the Migra isn't out looking for you, and you know your way around the culture. That's bad news for the Democrats, who rely on illegals to lard up their electoral college votes in blue states, increase federal spending based on head counts here, and actually vote illegally in elections, particularly in districts where very few people are in the country legally.

It goes to show that even with ideological conformity, nations have interests, and interests most certainly can conflict.

For many years, I had wondered why what passes

for Mexico's conservatives always seemed to be so

fiercely aligned to U.S. Democrats. Why was

former Mexican president Vicente Fox, Mexico's

first elected conservative via the PAN party,

always such a shill for Democrats? Why was

President Felipe Calderón, who came after him,

almost as obnoxious? Why did these people so

advocate for an end to U.S. borders and denounce

the American people as Nazis for opposing them,

despite their being fairly conservative and

ideologically recognizable on every other issue?

It turns out their political fortunes were built on getting as many indigent Mexicans out of the country as possible. Their governments benefited from their absence, both from remittances and in the way they lowered social costs for the Mexican government in terms of housing them, educating them, and providing them with income and health care among other things. For a conservative government focused on fiscal discipline, it was most certainly in their interest to drive as many of Mexico's poor to El Norte, the better to get the gringo to pay, an old Mexican custom dating from the war of 1848.

Democrats in the U.S., in turn, lapped up the new migrants, with California's Democratic gov. Jerry Brown announcing "you're all welcome here." His party benefited, and the more, the better. The Catholic bishops also benefited, hence Steve Bannon's admittedly harsh analysis that the Church was all in for illegals even as it claimed to believe in the rule of law, because of its interest in "filling the pews."

Now comes AMLO, whose big plan is to enact social welfare programs in Mexico, a move that is sure to draw many Mexicans back to their home country. It makes sense from his point of view and the viewpoint of his national interest, given that Mexico can no longer afford to lose people. Demographically, the median age is rising there, the population growth has gone flat, and incomes have passed the $7,000-a-year threshold, below which is said to trigger illegal immigration.

Nations always have interests, and this one conflicts with the U.S. Democratic Party's interest, which, up until now, aligned with the interests of Mexico's conservatives.

AMLO, if you look carefully at his words, seems cognizant of Democrats recognizing this and maybe getting angry about it, thus he has offered up to his ideological coevals in the States the "human right" of illegal immigration to the U.S. as a sop, using other people's countries instead of his own. Here are his words:

Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) declared mass immigration to the United States a "human right" for all North Americans during a speech Tuesday.

"And soon, very soon – after the victory of our movement – we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life in the United States."

He then declared migration "a human right we will defend," eluniversal.com reports.

What we are looking at here is a bid to ship illegals from other countries through Mexico to the U.S. (to keep Democrats happy), while implicitly discouraging Mexican illegal immigration, which has drained the country of talent. There is no other explanation for such a policy. Turning Mexico into a road stop for illegals from Central America and elsewhere by calling it a "human right" is frankly toxic for Mexico, because it will empower cartels and give Mexico's government nothing, not even remittances, and plenty of enmity with the U.S. What's more, it should serve as an electoral mobilizer for Republicans, who will be angry at the move.

Net effect: another loss for Democrats, in terms of lost people it intended to build its party fortunes on and in energizing Republicans. They're not going to like this.

FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE RACE”

by Michelle Malkin

Only in America could critics of a group called "The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."

Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the Latino organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race." Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of white people who called themselves that? No matter. The presidential candidates and the media have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The unvarnished truth is that the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.

Here are 15 things you should know about "The Race":

15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens.

14."The Race" demands in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S. citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.

11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.

10. "The Race" opposed the state of Oklahoma's tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal cooperation and information sharing.

7. "The Race" has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.

6. Former "Race" president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S. English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was referring to U.S. English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States. "The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."

5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West."

4. "The Race" is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race" president Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights."

3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8 million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain … ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction."

2. "The Race" has perfected the art of the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.

1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy -- and the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' -- and that's precisely why we don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."

It's widely regarded as America's biggest problem: Between 12 and 20 million aliens (MOST SOURCES SUGGEST THERE ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY NEARLY 40 MILLION ILLEGALS HERE NOW) – including large numbers of criminals, gang members and even terrorists – have entered this nation illegally, with countless more streaming across our scandalously unguarded borders daily.

The issue polarizes the nation, robs citizens of jobs, bleeds taxpayers, threatens America's national security and dangerously balkanizes the country into unassimilated ethnic groups with little loyalty or love for America's founding values. Indeed, the de facto invasion is rapidly transforming America into a totally different country than the one past generations have known and loved.

And yet – most Americans have almost no idea what is really going on, or why it is happening.

Titled "ALIEN NATION," the issue is subtitled "SECRETS OF THE INVASION: Why government invites rampant illegal immigration." Indeed, it reveals pivotal secrets very few Americans know. For example:

Did you know that the powerfully influential Council on Foreign Relations – often described as a “shadow government" – issued a comprehensive report last year laying out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter"?

Roughly translated: In the next few years, according to the 59-page report titled "Building a North American Community," the U.S. must be integrated with the socialism, corruption, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada. As Phyllis Schlafly reveals in this issue of Whistleblower: "This CFR document asserts that President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin 'committed their governments' to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America' and assigned 'working groups' to fill in the details. It was at this same meeting, grandly called the North American Summit, that President Bush pinned the epithet 'vigilantes' on the volunteers guarding our border in Arizona."

The CFR report – important excerpts of which are published in Whistleblower – also suggests North American elitists begin getting together regularly, and presumably secretly, "to buttress North American relationships, along the lines of the Bilderberg or Wehrkunde conferences, organized to support transatlantic relations." The Bilderberg and Wehrkunde conferences are highly secret conclaves of the powerful. For decades, there have been suspicions that such meetings were used for plotting the course of world events and especially the centralization of global decision-making.

Did you know that radical immigrant groups – including the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) and the National Council of La Raza (La Raza) – not only share a revolutionary agenda of conquering America's southwest, but they also share common funding sources, notably the Ford and Rockefeller foundations?

''California is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave." And MEChA's goal is even more radical: an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this organization gives to the seven states of the U.S. Southwest – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. So why would the Rockefeller and Ford foundations support such groups? Joseph Farah tells the story in this issue of Whistleblower.

Why have America's politicians – of both major parties – allowed the illegal alien invasion of this nation to continue for the last 30 years unabated? With al-Qaida and allied terrorists promising to annihilate major U.S. cities with nuclear weapons, with some big-city hospital emergency rooms near closure due to the crush of so many illegals, with the rapid spread throughout the U.S. of MS-13, the super-violent illegal alien gang – with all this and more, why do U.S. officials choose to ignore the laws of the land and the will of the people to pursue, instead, policies of open borders and lax immigration enforcement?

The answers to all this and much more are in Whistleblower's "ALIEN NATION" issue.

Is there hope? Or is America lost to a demographic invasion destined to annihilate its traditional Judeo-Christian culture, and to the ever-growing likelihood that nuclear-armed jihadists will cross our porous borders and wreak unthinkable destruction here?

There most definitely is hope, according to this issue of Whistleblower. Although most politicians of both major political parties have long since abdicated their responsibility for securing America's borders and dealing effectively with the millions already here illegally, there are a few exceptions – most notably Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo.

May's Whistleblower includes an exclusive sneak preview of Tancredo's forthcoming blockbuster book, "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America’s Border and Security." In an extended excerpt, Whistleblower presents Tencredo's expert and inspired analysis of exactly how to solve the nation's most vexing problem.

Will Radicalization Work for the Democrats?

With the political struggle slowly but surely heating up heading into the 2020 presidential campaign, the Democrats find themselves in search of a campaign strategy that will bring them victory. While some observers believe that a successful campaign would appeal to moderate and undecided voters, others urge giving the Republican opponents a fierce fight. The proponents of the moderate approach argue that admonitions from the Democratic camp such as those of Hillary Clinton who dismissed any civility in a dialogue with the Republicans, or Eric Holder, who said that “when they [Republicans] go low, we kick them,” or Cory Booker, who urged protesters of President Trump to confront administration officials (just like Maxine Waters before him) -- are turning off moderates while unifying and agitating the Trump base against the “liberal mob.” Distorted with rage and hatred, the faces of the “Resistance” movement with its many marches, seething hostility at town halls and anti-Trump placards shouting at passersby from bungalow windows add some nasty colors to the picture.

Many other commentators, however, call for even more offensive and energetic approach against the Republicans, and President Trump most of all, and blast those “bridge-building” moderates like Joe Biden -- as they portray him -- as cowards who have nothing else to offer but consensus-seeking. Trapped in a black-and-white, all-or-nothing categorical thinking, those Democrats are ready to fight against Trump with whatever means necessary. For if Donald Trump is a pure evil, then everything he stands for is evil, and cannot be accepted, period. For instance, both Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer were harshly criticized for supporting Trump’s infrastructure plan – even though it’s impossible to imagine a more nonpartisan project that would benefit all Americans regardless of their political views! Or the rejected DACA deal proposed by Trump which would include not just the roughly 700,000 Dreamer immigrants who have applied for DACA protection since 2012, but an additional 1.1 million illegal immigrants who could have qualified but have not yet applied? “Democrats would be crazy to reject it,” – ran CNBC. Apparently, they were.

Then there is the ideological aspect to consider. The Democratic camp is rapidly leaning further to the left. This tendency is personified in the dramatic ascent of politicians such as Bernie Sanders of Vermont, against whom Hillary Clinton had to play dirty to win the nomination in 2016. The most prominent socialist in America, Bernie, 77, could energize the voters in the way no other Democrat could, drawing far more votes in the primaries from those under the age of 30 than did Clinton and Trump combined. The purely socialist ideas that he’s been voicing way before they become mainstream -- Medicare for all, higher top marginal taxes, ultra-liberal immigration legislation and abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, free college tuition and many others, are now being echoed and promoted by other Democratic candidates participating in the race.

“The future of the Democratic Party, and by extension the country, may well depend on whether the party is finally willing to ditch its fretful posture of peacemaking and give war a chance,” -- beats the war drum of the New Republic. So what are the chances that further radicalization and unwillingness to negotiate will help Democrats in 2020?

The first thing to consider would be an economic reality that the people are actually experiencing themselves. Trump’s economic policies resulted in a growth of the real gross domestic product (GDP) that exceeded 3 percent over the last four quarters of 2018 and 4.2 percent in the second quarter. More than five million jobs have been created since President Trump’s election and the unemployment rate remains below 4 percent, with the record-low unemployment among African Americans and Hispanics. Now, how can you possibly wage war against a booming economy? Freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did, and her “victory over Amazon” cost New Yorkers “at least 25,000-40,000 good paying jobs and nearly $30 billion dollars in new revenue to fund transit improvements, new housing, schools and countless other quality-of-life improvements,” as NY Governor Andrew Cuomo wailed.

Radicalizing leftism exposes its most dangerous and destructive thread -- a growing hostility to free markets and capitalism, in many cases to the point of barely contained contempt for it and for the wealthy. In other words, to the very economic basis of the American economic system. History has proven many times – and keeps proving – the economic inefficiency of socialist methods. Sure, Democrats reject the Soviet or Cuban model (well,Bernie did). Leftists idealize Nordic countries, but refuse to see that they, for starters, are not even “socialist,” as they practice typical capitalist broad economic freedoms and, for example, have no minimum wage laws. Also, they built the wealth their citizens now enjoy long before leftist ideas took hold. Interestingly, when their economic growth started to slow down, the Scandinavian governments reacted by cutting taxes and slashing the wasteful bureaucracy in half, and now Scandinavia is slowly “returning to its free market roots,” as the experts put it. So why going that road and not learning from the experience of others?

In their power hunger, Democrats seem to get out of touch with reality – they are not building their agenda around issues that are important for people, even though they claim they do. They fail to comprehend that the very phenomenon of Donald Trump was possible because of the alienation of the traditional Washington elites from the values and needs of ordinary people -- the working class of America, to use the Marxist term. Those are the blue-collar workers that Democrats have claimed to take care of for decades and viewed as their concrete electoral base versus fat-cat white-collar Republicans. What are the values that Trump appealed to and the Democrats failed to grasp? First of all, the value of productive economy as the foundation for the sustainable well-being of the society. Logically, the second value would be reindustrialization and, in broader terms, modernization of economic and social development. The third value is the nation’s own labor force and an appropriate migration policy that would protect it. Hence, sound economic protectionism. Politically, protectionism embodies a strong national sovereignty, which was explicitly reflected in the “Make America Great Again” motto. None of these is a personal invention of Donald Trump, as they have always been an integral part of rightist discourse. But the “miracle” of Trump’s victory has raised this set of ideas to the level of a national agenda. Its factual implementation bears fruits that reasonable people cannot deny. If the same had been accomplished by a Democratic president, the party, media, and the myriads of liberal expert and observers would worship him/her. But Trump is not a Democrat. Moreover, he is an outsider who can outsmart their fancy elitist strategists by simply voicing people’s concerns, winning despite all odds. Now Trump calls to “Keep America Great,” and raises more campaign contributions in two days than all the Democrats in the first quarter of 2019 combined.

Further radicalization of the Democrats built on anti-Trumpism would turn into a destructive power aimed to reverse and demolish all Trump’s achievements. It will undoubtedly appeal to some radicals, but is unlikely to resonate with the interests of most middle-class Americans who would not want to shoot themselves in the foot by voting against Trump. But… oh well, the leftists have never had a high opinion of deplorables’ mental abilities.